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Hidden Files - Where Did They Go?

I restored my pc so all my files were gone (Music - Pictures). I managed to recover them using "Scavenger 3.2" through external drive. So I was wondering why my HDD keeps showing me same space memory I had before restoration was made. Are those files hidden (70GB) ? Where?

I Did. I purchased it & was able to recover what I deleted. All my files are now located in an external HDD (Around 70 GB). However, my HDD shows as of today 100 GB free space available instead of 170 GB. The ones I had to recover using Scavenger 3.2 should've been deleted from my PC and they were but HDD free space didn't reflected.

I think that...when recovering files, those files are not necessarily files which are viewable on the hard drive as originally seen. That's why they have to be recovered via use of a recovery program. There is no point in recovering...files which exist normally on a hard drive and which are seen as occupying that drive.

Soooo...there is no reason for your visible hard drive space allocations to change. If you deleted the files, they were removed from the original HD space allocation when you did so.

I have no idea where you are getting these numbers you throw around, but there are utilities which you can use to what files are taking up space on your system. Tree Size/TS Pro is one.

Recovering them to another drive merely increases the space used on that drive.

I tried TS Pro but still have same result. It doesn't show me where my hidden files are . I'm thinking to restore my PC to its original configuration. If I do this Will I have back my space memory? I guess I would need help on this since my issues started when I restored it by myself.